. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Oct. 30, 1919. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 477. British Bee-Keepers' Association Conversazione. The Conversazione held at the Central Hall last , October 23, was one of the most successful'that has been held. The attendance was very good, over 20U being present, strong evidence of the growing popularity of bee-keeping. In the unavoidalile absence of Mr. W. F. Reid from the earlier part of the meet- ing, the ehair was taken by Mr. C. L. M. Eales. who. after expressing pleasure at seeing so many present, called on Mr. G. Thomas for the
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Oct. 30, 1919. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 477. British Bee-Keepers' Association Conversazione. The Conversazione held at the Central Hall last , October 23, was one of the most successful'that has been held. The attendance was very good, over 20U being present, strong evidence of the growing popularity of bee-keeping. In the unavoidalile absence of Mr. W. F. Reid from the earlier part of the meet- ing, the ehair was taken by Mr. C. L. M. Eales. who. after expressing pleasure at seeing so many present, called on Mr. G. Thomas for the fii'st paper, on " The Difficulties of Queen Rearing," which Avas •as follows : — -^ Mr. Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen: — Ample time having been allotted for the discussion of this paper, I am venturing to place before you observations which do not coincide with the views held by some writers ujxtn apicultural matters. As most of you know, I do not rear queens for sale, nor do I produce nuclei for sale, confining myself to honey pro- duction, so that I am like most of you here, more interested in the amount of honey produced than in the amount of bees. The queen bee is the foundation of our honey crop, for however good a honey sea- son we may have, a poor queen will not produce a stock sufficiently strong to ob- tain the maximum amount of honey which is our aim. You will allow that the strain and parentage of the queen are of the utmost importance. My first difficulty, or question, is there- fore : —^Froni which queen shall I breed all my young queens? The bee-keeper of little experience would, I think, natur- ally reply, " Rear from the one that gave you the largest amount of ; Un- fortunately queens do not always transmit the desired qualities to their daughters. Right here, therefore, I depart from the procedure of some queen rearers, in that I do not breed from one queen only throughout the season but from four or five queens. I select th
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